Have you ever felt like you just dodged a bullet?

[guzzo]

Chunk Norris? I like it.

Well it's the only thing i can think of more frightning than fear itself!!

 

[eitak]

I'm 21 and had some digestion problems that occurred a few times but never really continued, I got referred by my mother to a specialist (to ease my mind), who suggested a colonoscopy (also to ease my mind) he didn't think it was necessary but thought it would be the best way to reassure me I would be fine . . he removed 9 pre-cancerous polyps . . I'm a healthy 21 yr old female with no family history . . I feel like I dodged a bullet purely because no-one expected anything to be wrong with me due to my age, health and lack of this being a heredity issue, all the steps I took were only done to reassure myself not because they were thought to be necessary (luckily I am still under my mother health care as I doubt the public health would have done this for me)

My sister when she was about 7/8 stepped out our back door (which was on a stilted house about 2.5 mtrs from the ground) while my stepdad was building a deck, there was nothing for her to step onto and she fell straight to the ground . . My stepfather then picked her up and took her to hospital . . nothing was wrong with her bar a few bruises, sooo lucky

 

[hrafna]

McDonald College?? Pfffft... you have to pay to go there. They're so desperate for kids to go there that they have to advertise on busses and at cinemas... Chose Newtown



Newtown is the best! Nothing ever bad has happened there. This is my fifth year there. Yeah, there are a few "druggo's", but hey, they're at every school.

none of that stuff happened at mcdonald college and i am sorry to say but mcdonald college has a far better rep than newtown! esp if you want to get acting work after school!

 

[LullabyLizard]

Not a better reputation? There is one student I know who auditioned from Darwin to get in. People travel from Wollongong and the Central Coast to come here, every single day. McDonald college doesn't care how good you are. You could act as badly as an inadament object, but if you can pay, you're in. 800 kids auditioned last year, for about 120 spots. I think that's great reputation!

 

[Defective]

iin 2009 i was leaving the hospital after having a nerve study done and it had been raining, my ankle went and i fell a metre onto the road and was nearly killed by a car at the lights as it was doing 80 in a 40 zone.
slight concussion, gravel rash and avulsive tears through all my ankle ligaments and tendons but crawled out the way enough not to be hit.

ambulance came screaming down and i was treated for concussion and the gravel rash but the tears, nothing could be done, am due to see a specialist about surgery to fix it but they cant do anything really. scared the life out of me, who knew going to hospital could be so dangerous.....i have weak ankles

 

[SteveNT]

Wow some amazing stories. I think everybody at some time or another has a brush with disaster....

Just those of us left.......

When I was 14 my father told me " if you dont take risks you dont have adventures, if you dont have adventures you dont have a life."

I took it seriously and ran away from home, never looked back. Still love the Old Man and still love my adventures, another one coming up this week and I'm 54 in May

 

[guzzo]

Just those of us left.......

When I was 14 my father told me " if you dont take risks you dont have adventures, if you dont have adventures you dont have a life."

I took it seriously and ran away from home, never looked back. Still love the Old Man and still love my adventures, another one coming up this week and I'm 54 in May

Thats great Steve, Thats why I live in the Teritory too

 

[Cockney_Red]

Over the years I've dodged the Mag from an AK-47...Mentioned them, in a couple of earlier threads of this Ilk...not again..

 

[mmafan555]

When you think about it humans are really not equipt for being prey.....soft without any real defence esp against a real predator....I mean if something can bring down a full grown horse a stupid fisherman not paying attention would be like crushing a marshmellow with pliers haha

Kraits(land Kraits...Bungarus) are easily among the most venomous of ALL snakes species in the entire world...

I will make a thread later..and yes a bite from any type of Bungarus is potentially life threatening( some more so than others)...Sea Krait seem to cause less severe bites but Bungarus are extremely dangerous. During the day they are very docile and sluggish( and rarely bite people) but at night they can be pretty aggressive and fast and bite people when they are sleeping. They are one of the few snakes that actually goes into peoples homes and aggressively bites people when they are sleeping.

From memory im kinda sure that a blue banded krait is pretty damn dangerous, being a type of sea snake?
Only just remember seeing a doco on asian and indonesian snakes...

Their are 2 different types of Kraits. Land Kraits are Bungarus and Aquatic Sea Kraits are Laticauda..Both are extremely venomous but Laticauda tend to dry bite or give warning bites to humans and bites only occur on extremely rare occasions and significant envenomations are very rare..

Bites from some Bungarus species are pretty common in certain areas of Asia and they cause serious respiratory problems in humans. Bungars are highly nocturnal so 80%+ of bites occur at night and mostly when the victim is sleeping on the floor of their home.

Blue Banded Krait is very small but pretty deadly 500mm is a BIG one
Killed two people just in Bali last year

Its a land snake usually only found at ground level

The ones I have seen aren't that small( assuming you are talking about Bungarus Candidus)...In fact I have seen quite a few 3-4+ ft long ones. I think its probably because island populations(Bali) tend to be smaller than the ones found on mainland Asia. But that is not always true as the Kraits( Bungarus Caeruleus) in Sri Lanka can be pretty large like the ones in India.

I think either Bali has smaller than normal kraits (for Bungarus Candidus type) or you just saw juveniles...As the ones I have seen in Thailand and Vietnam were pretty good sized snakes.

 

[longqi]

Just googled Bungarus Candidus and yes pretty sure that is the same one
One difference was the shape of the body in that the ones I googled seemed to have that 'triangular' mid body look that some boigas and pytas koros have
These looked more rounded and had clearly defined bands and look a bit like a small banded king snake or corn snake so maybe they were just juveniles
I have only seen three and they were all small but I tend to try to avoid anything small and pretty over here
Locals told me they only ever see them that size but not many people wander around here at night in the jungle/forest
Both victims here were near Ubud/Gianyar and in an area being cleared for housing
Both victims picked the snake up to show friends
Ty for the great info
And the warning not to sleep on the floor too often

 

[moosenoose]

Great story Guzzo...i would have absolutely shat myself! :lol:

 

[guzzo]

Great story Guzzo...i would have absolutely shat myself! :lol:

I sure did too....haha I am a lot more careful these days. After reading some of these horror stories it is a wonder there is anyone left alive on APS.

How about you moosenoose, have you been tagged by any of those vens? Great Album and pics BTW

 

[mmafan555]

Just googled Bungarus Candidus and yes pretty sure that is the same one
One difference was the shape of the body in that the ones I googled seemed to have that 'triangular' mid body look that some boigas and pytas koros have
These looked more rounded and had clearly defined bands and look a bit like a small banded king snake or corn snake so maybe they were just juveniles
I have only seen three and they were all small but I tend to try to avoid anything small and pretty over here
Locals told me they only ever see them that size but not many people wander around here at night in the jungle/forest
Both victims here were near Ubud/Gianyar and in an area being cleared for housing
Both victims picked the snake up to show friends
Ty for the great info
And the warning not to sleep on the floor too often

I will make a thread later about them and their bites....I'm guessing that you probably saw a candidus but that the ones in bali are just smaller than the ones in say Thailand or Malaysia. Many times inland snakes are smaller than on the mainland..through not always and like I said Caeruleus in Sri Lanka get pretty big (2.5ft on average and up to 4.5ft+) most Bungarus species are very very dangerous and venomous snakes and strictly nocturnal. Antivenom also seems to be much less effective against them than for other snakes.

 

[bigfella77]

Several years ago we were clearing powerlines between Taree and Kew, I put a climber up a big blackbutt tree to take out a single limb about 10-12m up. He cit off the limb which opened up a pipe into the heart of the tree. Well, in this tree was the biggest bee hive ive ever seen and by god did they give the climber some curry.
The poor bugger was stuck there for atleast ten minutes getting absoloutely drilled by bees, from the waist up he was just a solid mass of bees I could hear him screaming and chocking on the bees. Eventually he managed to release his pole strap and drop 10m to the ground where I dragged him as far from the bees as possible.
A 000 call later he was choppered to Newcastle hospital with suspected spinal injuries, but turned out he only fractured his pelvis and ruptured adrenal gland. Oh and not forgrtting the several hundred bee stings they took out of him.

 

[CrystalMoon]

Had a bad experience with croc as well(own stupid fault though)Was fishing for Barra on the western side of the gulf(top barra spot)had been walking and luring(gold bomber/or red DK calcutta reel t curve rod)got hot bothered and dam thirsty(creek was brackish)got back to cruiser grabbed UDL/S chair and smokes, dragged all down to the edge of water. Some time later feeling quite relaxed but still hot, checked for crocs.....none.....slipped chair into water up to waist deep when sitting, drop off in veiw. Had a wonderful time, got pretty inebriated(sp)dropped smokes in water, got cross stomped out of the water on the way up the sand heard what I thought was a massive Barra chopping the suface water... looked down only to see a pretty big croc right where I was sitting...still makes the hairs on my neck stand up....I did not go get the rest of UDL/s I kept going...it cured my ignorant complacency of their territory and power.......